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On Double Clitics in Interrogatives in a Northern Italian Dialect
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Following recent studies (see for instance Poletto 2000) on the higher functional field, in this paper I aim to give a contribution to the cartography of the CP projection, by examining the behaviour of subject and object clitics in the Northern Italian ...
Nicoletta Penello
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Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance
Languages, 2022 This article examines the syntax of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Statistical analysis is performed on a sample of 350 dialects to show that the co-variation between syntactic variables is significant.
Diego Pescarini
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Syntactic microvariation and methodology: problems and perspectives [PDF]
, 2003 Variation in empirical data has been a perseverant problem for theoretical linguistics, especially syntax. Data inconsistencies among authors allegedly analyzing the same phenomenon are ubiquitous in the syntactic literature (e.g., literature on focus ...
Anikó Lipták +40 more
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Syntactic analyses of discourse particles through the microvariation of Basque ote
Glossa, 2020 In this article I look into dialectal data related to Basque discourse particles and I provide evidence that topics discussed in the literature on discourse particles can also be addressed within Basque microvariation.
Sergio Monforte
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Micro-Contact in Southern Italy: Language Change in Southern Lazio under Pressure from Italian
Languages, 2022 This paper explores a novel case of contact-induced change due to micro-contact within Italy, where various Italo-Romance languages coexist (Standard Italian, Italiano Regionale ‘regional Italian’, and numerous local languages).
Valentina Colasanti
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Glossa, 2020 This paper investigates dialectal microvariation across the Spanish-speaking world in terms of the presence/absence of que in sí-que contexts. The function of this construction is to signal the speaker’s commitment to the truth of the proposition.
Julio Villa-García +1 more
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Main clause external constituents and the derivation of subject-initial verb Second [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch (StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally regulates word order in these languages.
Greco, Ciro, Haegeman, Liliane
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Microvariability Detection of Mrk 421 [PDF]
Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 2014 The BL Lac object Mrk 421 was observed in optical bands from 2009 April to 2012 May with the 1.0 m telescope at Weihai Observatory of Shandong University. Microvariability was analysed by C and F tests, but no significant microvariability was detected during our observations.
Chen, Xu, Hu, ShaoMing, Guo, DiFu
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The HISPACAT comparative database of syntactic constructions and its applications to syntactic variation research [PDF]
, 2011 The HISPACAT database of syntactic constructions in Catalan and Spanish is a dynamic comparative grammar of two closely related languages, which, from a theoretical point of view, offers us a alternative viewpoint to advance in our understanding of the ''
Villalba, Xavier
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Variation in Kimakunduchi and Standard Swahili:Insights from verbal morphosyntax
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 This paper explores variation between Kimakunduchi and Standard Swahili with a focus on verbal morphosyntax. With several varieties of Swahili identified and described over the years, here we focus on the Kimakunduchi variety spoken in the south-east of ...
Makoto Furumoto, Hannah Gibson
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